Zeugodacus (Zeugodacus) tau (Walker)

Dasyneura tau Walker, 1849: 1074 .

Dacus hageni de Meijere, 1911: 375 .

Dacus caudatus var. nubilus Hendel, 1912 (synonymised by White & Wang, 1992: 278)

Dacus nubilus ssp. femoralis Hendel, 1934:11 .

Dacus (Zeugodacus) tau Hardy, 1977: 60 .

Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) tau (in Wang, 1996: 72) .

Dacus (Zeugodacus) elegantis Tseng, Chen & Chu, 1992: 61 (synonymised by Drew & Romig, 2013: 353)

Dacus (Zeugodacus) flavus Tseng, Chen & Chu, 1992:63 . (synoymised by Drew & Romig, 2013: 353)

Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) tau (Walker) (in Drew & Romig, 2013: 353) .

Zeugodacus (Zeugodacus) tau (Walker) (in Doorenweerd et al., 2018: 48) .

Material examined: 9♂♂, INDIA, Tripura, Agartala, 10.iii.2016, Sunil Joshi , 1♀, INDIA, Sikkim, Tadong, 26 Oct ̄ 3 Nov 2014, Sunil Joshi (NBAIR) .

Diagnosis: Male with epandrium and surstyli distinctly bulb-shaped (posterior view) (Fig. 6N). Lateral surstylus longer than epandrium; posterior lobe of surstylus pointed, 9̄10 times longer than anterior lobe (Fig. 4J). Proctiger quadrate (when inflated) and smaller than epandrium. Medial surstylus longer than lateral surstylus tapering towards apex with a pair of thick prensisetae. Phallus 3.2 mm excluding glans (0.45 mm); 0.75 of glans sclerotised with entirely patterned praeputium (conical), subapical lobe and basal lobe present (Fig. 10H). Female with brown, dorsoventrally flattened oviscape (2.05 mm); spicules on distal end of eversible membrane (3.2 mm) with 10̄12 pointed projections (medial ones 3̄4 times higher than lateral ones) (Fig. 12E). Aculeus (2.4 mm long), tip pointed with 4 pairs of preapical setae, apical setae 10-12 times longer than basal ones (Fig.14E); two black, tightly coiled mulberry shaped spemathecae (Fig. 15U).